This is an analysis of the poem Living On A Fixed Income that begins with:
I've come up with a plan,
To help budget my fixed income....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcd cdX ecXae fbX fdXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,5,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 01101111 1111 1111 1110010101 01000010111010 11010001010111011 110101010 111101100111 11011100 111010111011 110111010010 001010010010 001110 11110010 011010111 101000100 10111101 10100110010010 1111111011 11001111111 01101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, month are repeated.
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- summary of Living On A Fixed Income;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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